Mayor Mike Thoms speaks at Rock Island's State of the City held at Bally's Quad Cities Casino and Hotel on Tuesday, Jan. 28, ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - The West End Revitalization group is working to bring change to western Rock Island. Over the past ...

Commuter operator Metra says it is considering the rarely used option of outside financing to address its increasingly urgent ...

The agency owns 446 bridges, of which 80 percent of them are at least more than 75 years old and have surpassed their functional lifespan and are increasingly expensive to ...

Metra may leverage low-interest federal loans to replace or repair some of its oldest bridges. At a Wednesday meeting, board ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted near Melrose Park Thursday night after a train struck a vehicle.

A motorist was hit by a train Monday afternoon about 3:30 p.m. on the Rock Island Line near 139th Street, Metra officials ...

Metra said. His condition was not immediately released. The commuter rail said to expect extensive delays after the crash on the Rock Island Line near Robbins. Train No. 419, scheduled to arrive ...

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It was not clear how the vehicle ended up on the tracks to be hit by a train in Robbins. Kris Habermehl reports from CBS Skywatch.

"Extensive" delays along Metra's Rock Island District line were likely after a vehicle was struck by a train on Monday afternoon near south suburban Robbins, the transit agency said.

ROBBINS, Ill. (CBS) -- A car was struck by a Metra train in south suburban Robbins Monday afternoon, right before the start of the afternoon rush. Rock Island District Line train 419, scheduled to ...